The Curse of Oak Island (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Voices from the Grave - full transcript

Tonight, on The

Curse of Oak Island...

Someone's coming to

visit the island.

Her father and her brother died

looking for the treasure.

They were too close.

Oh, God...

I'm just afraid you

might get stuck there.

The spirit of a dead



priest had entered my body.

I feel like I'm

constantly looking over my

shoulder.

Like there's

something watching you from

behind.

Yeah.

Look out!

Go!

The is an island

in the North Atlantic where men

have been digging for more than

200 years.



So far, they have uncovered

tunnels, booby-traps,

and carved stones with strange

symbols, suggesting that

something incredible must lie

below.

So far, six men have lost their

lives trying to solve the

mystery.

And according to legend, one

more will have to die before

the secret is revealed.

Subtitled by Diego Moraes
www.oakisland.tk

I guess we're all

agreed, then, that what we want

to do is plan the agenda.

Okay.

I think we need to

prioritize what we're gonna do,

and then have a backup plan,

'cause everybody knows whatever

can go awry goes awry here.

David is in charge of

all the dangerous stuff, right?

No, that's Rick's job.

That's Rick's job?

I'm just gonna throw

rope on him.

Six years ago,

Marty Lagina-- along with his

brother Rick-- purchased most

of Oak Island in an attempt to

solve the mystery once and for

all.

This started when I was

a little boy at 11 and read the

story of Oak Island.

All of these questions, you

know, that you could puzzle out

and think through... that was,

that was very attractive.

So then this Oak

Island thing became our thing

that we always shared, which is

how he's always done everything

his whole life: he wants "us"

to do it.

The classic Rick was... to

never give up.

And usually sort of dragged me

along with him, you know?

So... so what?

In the past few

weeks, Rick, Marty and their

partners have managed to find

evidence of strange bits of

metal embedded in rock... as

deep down as 235 feet.

Whoa, whoa.

Is that the-the

mother lode, right there?

That looks like it.

Yeah, yeah.

But the big

discovery so far...

Yeah, there it is.

...is that a

significant amount of coconut

fiber was found more than 1,500

miles from the nearest coconut

tree and dated to be more than

600 years old.

It's believed that this coconut

fiber was used as a kind of

ancient filter, needed to keep

sediment and debris out of the

booby traps that flooded the

Money Pit.

Okay.

I just want to bring everybody

up to speed about the swamp.

Fred Nolan tells us

that there's some sort of plank

thing in there.

Did you see that?

Well, there's no

question about that, because

like I say, when I was walking

through the mud with a wetsuit

on, you know, I'd take my foot

and feel on the outside, and I

could feel the circumference

of the tree.

I mean, they're pretty good

size trees.

Here's the swamp.

Where do you say in the swamp...

The deep part's

right there.

Yeah.

Okay.

All of this is

shallow.

The water is only maybe maximum

five feet.

If anyone knows Oak

Island like the back of his

hand, it's Dan Blankenship.

Dan has been living on the

island and looking for treasure

here for nearly five decades.

Although he was never able to

fully explore the swamp, he

claims to have found metal stake

markers, wooden posts and--

perhaps most intriguing--

the stumps of old oak trees.

Why is that significant?

Oak trees cannot grow in water.

And if stumps are down there, it

could prove the theory that the

swamp is man-made.

Do you think

that swamp is man-made?

I always did.

Well, there you go.

If somebody created a swamp,

they did it to hide something,

right?

I mean, you don't make a swamp

for the hell of it.

So we want to see what's there.

We should get a sample

of the tree trunks to get, um,

tree dating on it to find out

when they were cut down.

That would limit certain

theories of who planted it

there.

And when the water

got there.

Yep.

Well, let's get to the

bottom of it, then.

Absolutely.

According to some

Oak Island theorists, the Money

Pit never contained any treasure

at all.

It was nothing more than a

ruse... a decoy designed to

throw would-be treasure hunters

off the track.

They believe the real treasure

vault lies buried much closer to

the surface, and is hidden in

plain sight.

Is it possible that the swamp

has been the key to solving the

Oak Island mystery all along?

Okay, guys, well,

look.

It's us against this island.

This has thwarted 200 years'

worth of people trying, but

we're gonna...

The island's

winning.

No, we're gonna win,

David.

Yeah?

We're gonna win.

This is the year.

This is the year.

All right.

Let's go.

Let's go do it.

Hey, everybody out.

We're gonna have a prelim

meeting right here.

Okay.

Let's figure out what

we're doing.

Okay, we're going back in there.

All of that stuff is coming out.

All of it.

This is the first one coming

down.

All right, it's laying

that way.

Which way you want to drop it?

I will drop it that

way.

You watch and see.

Well, my truck is there

and I don't want it on the... in

the bed of the truck.

Don't worry about

the truck.

Oh!

Kind of chilly?

It's not deep, Rick.

Oh...

Before they can

begin draining the swamp, Rick

Lagina and the boys need to

clear trees and brush so that

pumps can be brought in.

It's a very interesting

bottom in here.

It really is.

Yeah?

What's it like?

Like, flat.

Weird.

We have known anomalies in the

swamp area.

There's several rock anomalies,

flat, huge rocks.

There's a line of stones, which

may or may not be oriented

towards the Money Pit.

One of the reasons

the swamp has been so difficult

and dangerous to explore is

that it's known to contain

pockets of deadly hydrogen

sulfide, or H2S, gas.

Although colorless, it has a

smell of rotten eggs, and

naturally occurs when organic

matter is broken down by

bacteria.

It is also highly flammable, and

can even be explosive when

trapped in small areas.

You know the only

reason why I'm doing this, Dave,

don't you?

Why?

'Cause this water

stinks and I'm sitting in the

front seat.

Sitting right next to you.

No, you ain't!

Right?

As far as what's in the swamp,

there are some theories that are

beyond belief: The Ark of the

Covenant, the Holy Grail, the

Shakespearean Folios.

We don't know that these things

are in the swamp.

If they are, would it be

amazing?

You bet it would be.

All right.

You guys got it?

I'm getting...

We gotta... we gotta be pumping.

Yep.

I would just put 'em...

just leave 'em there for now.

Look out!

Look out!

Go!

Look out!

Look out!

Go!

Heads up.

You think you're in the clear,

and you're not.

I mean, if the chainsaw's on,

something's happening,

and someone could get hurt.

And God forbid if-if it were

you two.

I-I'd just, I-I'd leave

this place.

Stay conscious at all times

of what's going on around you.

Rick Lagina has a

good reason to be concerned

about safety on Oak Island.

The island has been known to be

a dangerous, and at times,

deadly place.

Since the original Money Pit was

discovered on the island in

1795, six men have died

violently while searching

for treasure.

The first of the deaths occurred

in 1861, when one treasure

hunter-- who was trying to

remove the ocean water from the

booby-trapped pit using a steam

engine-- was scalded to death in

a bizarre accident.

His remains were never

identified.

In 1897, the island claimed its

second victim when a treasure

hunter named Maynard Kaiser fell

to his death into the Money Pit.

The island had now had its

second taste of blood, and it

wouldn't be long before it

wanted more.

Okay, guys, initially,

we're gonna go off

of Fred's map.

This is Fred's survey map.

Here's the area we want

to explore right here,

the swamp.

Once the Oak Island

swamp is drained, Rick and the

team will be searching the

bottom for anything unusual.

Could they find additional rocks

with strange carvings on them?

Or perhaps a gateway into the

original Money Pit?

So it looks like, we're

looking at this thing here?

I mean, that's kind of...

Lee Lamb.

Uncle Rick, this must be

for you.

Oh, wow.

Hello?

Hi.

How are you?

The woman calling

Rick is Lee Lamb.

She is the daughter and the

sister of two more Oak Island

victims.

Her father Robert Restall and

her brother Robert Jr. were

killed along with two others

while working on Oak Island in

August of 1965.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

Great, we very much

look forward to you coming.

Okay, take care.

Well, that was Lee

Lamb, the Restalls' eldest

daughter.

You know, the anniversary

of the tragedy's coming up,

and you know, she has,

you know, strong ties to the

island, having lost her father

and her older brother in the

pit.

When that happened, you

said they were pretty close

to finding something,

or they thought so.

They thought so.

Hopefully, she can

assist us.

I believe she has information

that is relevant to our present

search, but, uh...

Great, better get

cleaned up then, I guess.

Yeah, I'm excited.

The arrival of Lee

Lamb on Oak Island makes the

notions of a deadly curse seem

all the more real.

It was a Reader's Digeststory

about the Restalls' search for

treasure printed just a few

months before the tragedy that

attracted island treasure hunter

Dan Blankenship.

It was this same article that

fueled the childhood imagination

of an 11-year-old boy named

Rick Lagina.

A coincidence?

Or could it be that the Oak

Island curse identifies and

then lures its victims...

in advance?

Hello, Lee, Andrew.

Dave.

Oh, David!

Hi!

Come on in.

Oh, Dan.

Excuse me.

So good to see you.

Good to see you, too.

Wonderful to see you.

Rick, nice to meet

you, Rick.

Do you know this guy?

What do you say,

Andrew?

Lee Lamb has

brought with her Andrew DeMont,

the only living survivor of the

Restall tragedy.

He has never shared

the details of what happened

on that August day

nearly 50 years ago.

Pete, let's you and I

hop in the way back here.

Okay.

There's times when I've resented

Oak Island, well, I've hated it

for what it did, to take the men

out of my life.

And then my husband died a

couple of months later.

Oak Island started it all.

I had the most perfect life.

Nobody in my life had ever died

before, before Oak Island.

The curse of Oak Island is that

things go very wrong.

It's a strange place, it does

strange things to people.

I certainly believe in the curse

and that there's some malevolent

spirit on Oak Island,

I really do.

So, is that the remains of

Hedden's Wharf?

That's it.

It's funny.

My memory doesn't have that

island so close.

In 1965, Lee Lamb

was a young woman living with

her husband in Ontario, Canada.

Although she was not on Oak

Island when her father and

brother were killed,

she remains haunted by the

tragedy to this day.

Have you seen this?

This is what Dan...

No, I haven't.

...Dan Blankenship had

put up.

Where were you saying that

the final pit was?

It was close to this

right here.

In that area right there.

Lee's father Robert

and her mother Mildred Restall,

worked together as motorcycle

daredevils at county fairs and

auto shows during the 1940s

and '50s.

Their act featured the notorious

Globe of Death, where both

reached speeds of 65 miles per

hour, crisscrossing one

another in a metal cage.

If their timing had been off by

even a fraction of a second,

the consequences could have

been deadly.

With that kind of fearlessness,

it's no wonder that Robert

Restall was convinced he could

solve the mystery of Oak Island.

His conviction later became

an obsession.

In 1959, he, along with Mildred

and their sons Robert Jr. and

Ricky, began living on Oak

Island while Robert and

Bobby Jr. looked

for treasure there.

But on August 17, 1965, just as

they thought they were getting

close to solving the mystery,

Robert stopped to check a 27-

foot-deep treasure shaft when he

was overcome by deadly H2S gas.

He then fell straight down into

four feet of water.

His son and four other men

jumped in to rescue him, but

not before they, too, were

overcome by the deadly gas that

had filled the watery pit.

After a frantic rescue effort,

only two men came out of the

hole alive.

Oak Island had claimed four more

souls, and Lee Lamb had lost

both her father and her brother

to the island's deadly curse.

The memories, they

are as plain as day.

I can still see it.

I heard cries.

And everybody, of course,

run to the pit to help.

So, Cyril and I was together.

The gas was so strong, that once

you got to it, you know there

was no going back up.

It was like a pit, it was just

nothing but a fog and an ugly

stink and a smell and it was

terrible.

So, uh, on the way down,

probably five feet, there was a

big timber there stretched

across the pit.

Leonard Kaiser, somehow he got

balanced just like this on a big

timber so they got him right

away.

And, uh, Cyril and I proceeded

to go down.

Your brother had your father by

the shoulders while he was

yelling, he still had him by

the shoulders out of the water.

The last I remember, I had your

brother by the shoulder.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh...

And passed out.

Oh, yeah, I was gone

within seconds.

So, they were still

alive when you passed out.

Just your brother.

Your brother held on well, too.

He must have been really strong

because the gas...

He was there

way before we got there, right?

Yeah.

And he still had your

father out of the water.

I felt so bad 'cause we couldn't

help.

Oh, God.

Okay.

For me to stand there and be

told by Andrew...

how much, uh...

had gone on that day...

and to see the emotion in him.

And he told me things that I

didn't know.

So, I was glad to hear that.

I was glad to hear every piece

of it.

I just want to say

thank you, Andrew.

Oh, you're welcome.

It's great to meet you guys.

This isn't just about a

treasure hunt.

It's not just about finding

something on Oak Island.

It's bigger than that.

Oak Island has reached its

tentacles far beyond just Oak

Island.

It has affected numerous

people's families financially,

emotionally.

Ruined lives.

The Restall story, one thing it

tells is, look, you have to be

careful on Oak Island.

There's danger here.

Okay.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, it's lovely out

here.

It's beautiful,

isn't it?

Nice breeze.

Following her

emotional visit to the scene of

her father and brother's tragic

deaths, Lee Lamb has asked Rick

Lagina to meet with her one more

time before she returns home.

I just wanted a minute

alone with you.

I didn't want to make a big deal

in front of people.

Sure, mm-hmm.

This is one of Bobby's

maps.

Lee Lamb has spent

the decades since her father and

brother's deaths gathering

information about the Restall

tragedy, and sharing it with

those who have dared to follow

in their footsteps.

Now when we were on the

island and that article

came out that so tantalized all

of you.

(both laugh)

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

They were just buried

in mail and requests and

information...

I mean, people

ask how many feet it is to this,

and whatever.

So, Bobby made this map up to

scale.

This was helpful because an

investor might, you know, find

this helpful.

Sure, sure.

Now, there's one other

thing, and I hope you'll study

them, but I must have them back.

This, this part is not a gift.

Uh, I'm curious now,

obviously.

Log books?

By... your father or Bobby?

These are Bobby's

journals.

My father never wrote journals.

Oh, my goodness.

Bobby's the only one.

So, in here...

How old was he here?

He was 18.

18.

Yeah.

Every day, too.

Every day, every day.

Wow.

It's like history coming alive.

The 1704 stone
had

been part of a buried man-made

reservoir the Restalls uncovered

at Smith's Cove that fed ocean

water to the booby-trapped

tunnels that flooded the Money

Pit.

Could 1704 be the year the

Money Pit was constructed and

the treasure buried on Oak

Island?

Here's September 22,

1960.

This is exactly what we were

talking about.

According to Bobby

Restall's journals, he and his

father believed they were close

to finding a so-called "mystery

box" or vault that Jack Adams, a

former caretaker on the island

in the 1930s, claimed was

buried underneath the water and

muck of the Oak Island swamp.

Of the numerous theories about

Oak Island, many suggest that

something of great value may

have been buried on the island

and then hidden at the bottom of

a man-made swamp.

Could this "mystery box" be

proof that those theories are

true?

I have pictures of

this, Rick.

There's pictures of them working

in the swamp, like, leaning over

the water and probing with this

big long pole.

You know it would be,

would be immensely helpful

because then we-we have a way to

reference what we're looking at.

Okay, okay.

Perhaps, one of the

Restall expedition's greatest

discoveries was made in the

winter of 1962.

According to his journals, Bobby

and his father had discovered a

spiral-shaped tunnel in the

Money Pit, one that wound

downward in a clockwise

direction, approximately 104

feet below the island's surface.

Could the "mystery box" in the

swamp be somehow connected to

this strange, corkscrew-like

passageway?

Perhaps as an entrance or

gateway?

For the next two and a half

years, the Restalls worked day

and night hoping to find a way

into the strange tunnel and

whatever might be hidden there.

They believed they were on the

verge of solving the mystery of

Oak Island.

Unfortunately, they would never

live to prove it.

I want you to look at

this entry.

Monday, August 16.

That's Cave-in Pit,

and he puts the day's date in

for the next day, and that was

the day they were killed.

Wow.

I just want to give you

some advice.

I've been so impressed with how

much you respect the island.

And, uh, uh, it's just that,

that, I'm-I'm just afraid that

you might get stuck there, you

know.

It becomes difficult to go day

after day.

I mean, are you

suggesting that I stop working?

No, no... (stammers)

I-I just have a little

trouble letting go of things.

But I'm sorry, I-I know you'll

understand.

Sure, sure.

You know what?

I mean, we can't change this.

We can't do anything about it,

but I hope, perhaps, on the end

of this book, you and I can fill

in here, excuse me, that we

finish.

Yeah, finish

the search.

Let's make a promise.

Okay.

Thank you.

Oh, you're welcome.

Give us one big hug

before you go.

I've had so many hugs.

I'm so spoiled.

All right, a big hug.

I'm not much of a hugger, but

you-you know...

You're getting good.

I'm getting good.

Lee Lamb is

convinced her father and brother

were close to making a major

discovery before the accident

that took their lives.

Now that Rick Lagina and the

other members of the Oak Island

team are turning their

attentions to the swamp, could

history be repeating itself?

And, if so, will the outcome be

the same as it was on that

August day in 1965?

Hey, guys.

What are we doing?

Truck should be

behind us.

Okay.

Pumps are gonna get

offloaded down there.

We're running hose up

to the uplands.

Flip the switch-- water, goes up

there, swamp gets dried.

All right.

All the permits are in

place.

Swamp, water, dry.

Finally, I get it.

With all the

government permits and

permissions they need secured,

Rick, Dave and the boys begin

the process of draining the

swamp.

But it isn't going to be easy.

Covering an area close to four

and a half acres, the swamp

holds approximately 3 million

gallons of brackish water.

Because of environmental laws,

the team cannot simply pump the

water into the nearby ocean, so

they will have to move it from

the swamp to another part of the

island.

To do this, they are going to

use two 95 horsepower pumps and

five miles of hose.

Put four right here.

Four?

Yup.

It's an operation

that will take several days and

cost tens of thousands of

dollars before the team will be

able to find out what might have

been buried there hundreds of

years ago.

Male end toward

the pumps, female end away from

the pump.

Mm-hmm.

Now, this one is

rolled perfect right, the right

way so you plug it in and just

unroll it.

This is the male end,

smaller and has the grooves

for the female end to clamp in

on it.

Make sure you

got the rubber in it.

Yeah.

Got to have a rubber.

Yep.

We don't want a

bunch of baby hoses running

around.

(all laugh)

We'll take both hoses

about 30 feet up that road.

Yeah, and then

take them that way.

One will go over and

one'll go across.

Is that gonna

work or has it got a twist

in it?

No, that's right.

I'm too old for this.

Well, looks like you're

gonna come up a little short.

Do they get heavy

after about the 50th one or so?

Yes, they're heavy

right now.

We've always wanted to drain the

swamp for one simple reason.

It's never been done before.

There we go.

Now we've only got 98 more.

As far as what we

expect to find, I don't know.

And that's what's so exciting.

The unknown is always exciting.

So, as soon as we start the

draining of this swamp, then

we'll find out the answer.

Think she's

gonna work, Dan?

You know, it'll

certainly fill the hoses

with water, I mean...

A self-proclaimed

hermit, Dan Henskee has been

searching for treasure on Oak

Island for nearly 50 years.

He is also firmly convinced that

the island is haunted, and that

the legends about a deadly curse

are all too true.

While helping Dan and Dave

Blankenship dig Borehole 10-X

back in the 1970s, Dan often

complained of having a series of

nightmares.

Nightmares that nearly scared

him to death.

Back in 1973, an

experience happened to me, which

was quite strange.

It involved what appeared to be

possession by a spirit of

someone long dead.

I thought that the spirit of a

dead priest had entered my body

and that the priest had his

throat cut.

I do remember falling down,

feeling that I was experiencing

the death of this person.

I don't actually know if what's

happened to me on Oak Island was

real or imaginary, there is this

long-standing legend about

pirates killing somebody in such

a way that the spirit of the

dead person would guard the

treasure forever, or until the

pirates came back and got it

themselves.

Could Dan Henskee's

belief that his soul was

possessed by a murdered priest

simply be dismissed as a strange

hallucination?

Or is it possible that there

really are dark forces on Oak

Island?

Forces that guard the secrets of

the island and protect whatever

it is that is buried there?

Some say the first instance of

something not quite right about

the island was the evening in

1795 when 18-year-old Daniel

McGinnis spotted three strange

green lights that eventually

lured him and two of his friends

across the bay to the area where

they would discover the Money

Pit.

Since then, other eerie

encounters have been documented

from sightings of the ghosts

of 18th century British troops

to those who believe the ravens

on the island are actually

possessed by the souls of the

slaves who dug the treasure

tunnels hundreds of years ago.

Before they drain the swamp,

Rick and Marty Lagina have

invited a group of paranormal

investigators to join them in an

effort to find out if the Oak

Island legends about ghosts and

curses have any basis in fact.

We've had lots of,

uh, different experiences here.

Linda's brought some pictures

for you guys to see.

Great.

This was the

first one that I had taken at

10-X, and wasn't really sure

what this was, so I zoomed in

on it.

Let me see that.

Still not really sure

what it is.

Looks like a skull,

doesn't it?

We try to debunk as

much as we can.

Once we can't debunk it anymore,

then it's just kind of left

unexplained.

Well, let me ask you

a question: you do this all over

the place, right?

Mm-hmm.

Is this place

different?

Yeah.

There's a mystery and an aura.

There's an energy

to it.

Yeah, there is.

Some of you play the...

the skeptic.

Harold's a skeptic.

Yeah, and I did hear

what we thought were footsteps.

I was down by the swamp area.

Over to my right side, I could

hear these footsteps.

And I was shining the light in

the swamp, expecting to turn

around and-and see somebody

there, but there was nothing.

We got a bogeyman.

The investigators

lead Marty, Rick and the team

to the swamp... one of the

places where many of them have

experienced strange, unexplained

phenomena.

Well, out of all the

spots on the island, this is

the spot that I get creeped out

the most in.

I actually don't even really

like being down here.

Can you articulate why

you don't like it here?

It's... it's just the

energy that's down here.

Um, it's focused on these trees

over here.

We intend to do

extensive work here in the

swamp, looking for clues to

what happened.

Who knows what that activity

will engage?

So you're going to make

it creepier for me, is what

you're saying.

Yes, yes.

We're good to start

voice recorders.

Start at 8:00.

We have our K2s.

One of the little

green lights light up, there's

five little indicator lights on

it.

So what does that read?

Electromagnetic?

Yeah, any energy or

power sources.

There are those who

believe that if something really

is buried on Oak Island, it is

something best left undisturbed.

I feel very, very

creeped out and uncomfortable,

like I'm constantly looking over

my shoulder.

Um...

Like there's

something watching.

Watching you from behind.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh.

We got a hit on the K2.

That's a big hit.

Yeah, that's a big

one.

What exactly have

the researchers on Oak Island

encountered?

Could it be just a simple

mechanical malfunction?

Or is it something much more

profound?

That is an indication

that there is something here

trying to communicate with us.

Is the curse valid?

I don't know.

Do strange things happen on Oak

Island?

Yes, they do.

There's another hit

there.

I'm not a big believer

in curses.

You know, it seems like there's

a pile of stuff that happens.

But no.

Honestly, in my heart, I don't

believe it's the Oak Island

curse.

We would like to get

more gear.

But, you know...

We don't want to hinder

the search progress, but I-I

think we can cooperate.

Sounds great.

Did Rick and Marty

Lagina just experience one of

the mysterious forces that are

rumored to exist on Oak Island?

Perhaps.

But that isn't enough to prevent

them from trying to solve the

200-year-old mystery.

They've invested too many

years-- and too much money--

to stop now.

♪ ♪

After the strange

incident that happened at the

swamp the night before, Rick,

Marty and the Oak Island team

meet one last time before they

begin their biggest and possibly

most challenging operation so

far: the draining of the swamp.

I just want to talk

about...

Okay, when we drain the swamp,

what are we going to do?

I mean, what are we looking for?

How are we gonna look for it?

Well, we're looking...

If we start in this corner of

the swamp...

That's where our pump

is, basically, right?

Right.

So we were probing in this

general vicinity and we came

upon...

You can describe it.

A smooth rock.

As smooth as this table with no

silt on it, no nothing.

About three by eight feet.

That was two years ago.

We looked last year.

We couldn't find it.

Again.

Dan also claimed there

was a tunnel from the ocean to

the swamp.

I mean, you're looking at the

Money Pit.

Maybe there's a shaft.

They had to have a way to

introduce air down to those

lower depths.

Smooth stone

structures?

Tunnels into the Money Pit from

the ocean?

Could these findings be

connected to Bobby Restall's

journal entries about a "mystery

box" and strange, corkscrew-like

tunnels?

Okay, which brings me

to the last thing I have, then.

What about safety?

We know there's poison gas on

this island.

H2S will kill you very quickly,

basically paralyzes you.

So...

Right.

We're going to be pumping the

swamp down, we're going to be in

a low-lying area.

Yes.

I mean, usually the

ocean breezes will keep the air

moving, we should be fine,

but...

Yeah, well... look,

though, but it's dangerous.

How much concentration

are we going to get in... being

in such a big area?

It...

David, it can...

it can be really...

It can behave really weirdly.

On a calm day, it could

pool, right?

Yeah, it pools up.

But that's just it.

I-I would like to see us have

part per million detectors.

The reason we know about this is

it's a common contaminant in

natural gas.

And at concentrations that'll

kill you so quickly you can't...

One breath.

One breath and you're dead.

It paralyzes you.

Yeah, you're

paralyzed.

And the other insidious thing

about it is that at higher

concentrations it-it deadens

the olfactory cells in your

nose.

So you're going along and you're

saying, "Oh, man, that stinks,

so there's gas but I'm still

okay."

Then all of a sudden you don't

smell it again.

And then about ten seconds

later, you're dead.

You think you're good.

It's very important.

And it sounds insignificant, but

no one goes in there alone.

Ever.

I'll accept that.

David can speak to

that.

If it's going to go

wrong, it's going to go wrong.

On that note...

Okay, let's go.

Let's call this meeting.

All right, everybody

out.

Let's get the hose in the water

and get after it.

If Rick and Marty

can successfully drain the

swamp, they could discover what

might be the final piece in a

200-year-old puzzle.

But will solving the Oak Island

mystery really be the end of the

story?

Or only the beginning?

All the previous

searchers, the early

discoverers, the early explorers

came with a sense of "I can

solve what's unsolvable."

More so than, I think, the

singular pursuit of treasure.

I think that's what has driven a

lot of people to this island.

I'm not...

I'm not

thinking I'm the guy to do it,

necessarily.

I'm thinking he's the guy to do

it.

Well, I have no

intention of failing.

See?

Keep going, Rick.

We believe in you!

How cold is that

water, by the way, big brother?

It's not fun.

No, I'll bet not.

All right.

Okay.

Start it up.

Let's go.

There it goes.

Yeah, I want to see

the discharge point.

Yeah-hey!

High five!

The swamp is actually being

drained.

Rick, Marty and the

other members of their team are

within hours of finding out

whether the Oak Island swamp

hides the key to solving a

200-year-old mystery.

Could it really be a gateway to

a vast underground labyrinth of

tunnels and treasure vaults?

Or will it lead to a dead end?

And what of the legend that

seven must die in pursuit of the

treasure before it can ever be

found?

So far, six men have lost their

lives in pursuit of a dream.

A dream that became an

obsession.

But was it the island that

claimed these souls?

Or was it their own blind desire

to go farther and deeper than

man was ever meant to go?

And if so, who will be next?

Who will be the next victim of

the curse of Oak Island?

Next time, on The

Curse of Oak Island...

I found a treasure map

leading to Oak Island.

It is concealed in codes in the

manuscripts of William

Shakespeare.

And it also tells you what the

treasure is.

You believe that the

menorah from the Temple of

Solomon could be buried on Oak

Island?
Yeah, basically.

I'm actually getting multiple signals.

Subtitled by Diego Moraes
www.oakisland.tk